In a previous post I covered how to link to a specific timestamp in a YouTube video . The short version looks like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjDw3azfZWI #t=31m08s The "#t=31m08s" takes you to 31 minutes and 8 seconds in a video. I just found out that you can also start embedded videos at a certain timestamp . To do it on an embedded video, use the "start" parameter. Note that start takes seconds as a parameter, not minutes and seconds. For example,